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1896-1903 attended the Higher Art Institute of the Academy of Arts; at first studied architecture and then switched to sculpture; 1903 with Boris Kustodiev visited Novgorod to research ancient Russian art, his lifelong interest; 1904 lived in Paris; attended the Académie Julian;; 1904-13 lived in St. Petersburg; worked in various disciplines, including painting, sculpture, stage design, and book illustration; contributed to the exhibitions of the New Society of Artists, the Union of Artists, the World of Art, and other societies; with Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, and others visited Talashkino; 1905-06 contributed to satirical magazines; 1906 created an album of illustrations to “The Lay of the Host of Igor”; 1907 with Kustodiev visited Italy; 1907-13 made many trips to ancient Russian cities; visited Western Europe several times; 1908-09 designed productions of Alexei K. Tolstoi's “Tsar Fedor Ivanovich” and Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov's “Snegourochka”; 1909 designed costumes for Sergei Diaghilev's production of “The Maid of Pskov” in Paris; 1912 onward member of the revived World of Art group; contributed to the "Exhibition of Paintings by Russian Artists and Sculpture by Boris Fredman-Kliuzel" at the Lemercier Gallery, Moscow; 1914 onward lived in France where he worked as a sculptor, muralist, and stage designer. (Bowlt, 1994, p. 243.)